Noel's Dive Blog

This was definitely a dive of a life time. We went with Casa Del Buceo. They took very good care of us. Only 6 of us in the boat. We left at 7:30 am and were back by 12:00. Enrique and Jesus worked hard to get us to the Sharks.

This first video shows a bit of how the process works. The boat gets close to the whale shark (but not to close) and while its getting in place you hang over the edge of the boat. Once the boat is in position you jump from the boat and start swimming like crazy to get to the whale shark.

This second video is from our first swim with our first whale shark. While you look at them from the boat they appear to be slow but when you are in the water with them they are actually moving quite fast. It was a struggle to keep pace with them.

These videos are from our latest trip to Maui. The first video is from a two dive trip we did with Scuba Shack. The first part of the dive (which is not on this video) was to Molokini Crater. The second dive of the day was at a site called Red Hill which is close to Mckena. Was a great dive where we saw 2 turtles and an octopus.

The second trip we took was for a Manta Dive through the Maui Dive Shop (MDS). MDS had said that they had great success spotting mantas. We thought we would take the chance and we booked the dive. The first dive was to the back wall of Molokini Crater. I didn’t take my light on this dive the video will look rather blue.

This third video is from the actual Manta Dive. The dive was 45 minutes and we unfortunately did not see any Mantas. The video from this dive is short and pretty uneventful as the images were taken while we were trying to spot the mantas.

Mosquitoes were brutal but this was an awesome class to work with.

Video from the Pumpkin Carving Contest in October 2011.

This is really awesome a webcam placed at Race Rocks on Vancouver Island.   You can check out the site before you dive it!! While watching I saw a rock fish swim by and then a seal paid me a visit. Very addicting.

Fly By

Be sure not to spend to much time on the site. With all webcams there are a limited number of connections and you want to make sure you give others a turn.

Here is the link to the original forum post:

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/western-canada/397344-underwater-camera-race-rocks.html

Test your knowledge take Ears and Equalization Quiz.  This is another really good quiz from DAN.  I posted before on the Hand Signals quiz.

Here is some a video from this years AUC Lake Minnewanka clean up.  There were 50 divers from all over Alberta.  The most interesting piece of garbage was a stroller.